Finalists Announced For Eclipse Community Awards 2010

The Eclipse Foundation has announced the finalists for the 2010 Eclipse
Community Awards.

The Individual Awards category looks to recognise individuals
who have made a significant contribution to the Eclipse community.
The finalists were selected by their peers in an online vote. The
Top Committer finalists are Boris Bokowski, Markus Schorn and Eike
Stepper. The Top Contributor finalists are Matt Hall, Laurens
Holst, James Sugrue and Lars Vogel. The selection of the Top
Newcomer Evangelist is based on the amount of questions raised and
answered by Eclipse members on the eclipse.newcomer newsgroup. Top
Newcomer Evangelist finalists are Russell Bateman, Walter Harley
and Lars Vogel.

The Project Awards distinguishes Eclipse projects that display
innovation and foster community. Finalists were selected by an
online vote. The Most Open Project finalists are e4, Equinox p2,
Mylyn and XML Tools in Web Tools Platform (WTP) Incubator.
Meanwhile, EclipseLink, Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) Cocoa Port
and Textual Modeling Framework (TMF) Xtext are the finalists for
the Most Innovative New Feature or Eclipse Project award.

The Technology Awards recognise Eclipse-based tools and
applications. The finalists were selected by judging panels from
the Eclipse community, who selected BIRT Mashboard Application,
GUIdancer and Zend Studio 7 as the finalists for Best Commercial
Developer Tool. They also selected BIRT iServer Enterprise and
SpringSource dm Server as their finalists for Best EclipseRT
Application; and Bioclipse, PosterGenius and Tasktop Pro as Best
RCP Application finalists.

Please note that the voting for Best Open Source Developer Tool
is now closed. The winner of this award, along with winners in all
the above categories, will be announced at the Eclipse Awards
ceremony at EclipseCon.